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For information on Gobelin tapestries and carpets see main article Gobelins manufactory
Gobelin was the name of a family of
dyers, who in all probability came originally from
Reims, and who in the middle of the
15th century established themselves in the Faubourg Saint Marcel,
Paris, on the banks of the
Bièvre.
The first head of the firm was named Jehan (d. 1476). He discovered a peculiar kind of scarlet dyestuff, and he expended so much money on his establishment that it was named by the common people
la folie Gobelin. To the dye-works there was added in the 16th century a manufactory of
tapestry.
So rapidly did the wealth of the family increase, that in the third or fourth generation some of them forsook their trade and purchased titles of nobility. More than one of their number held offices of state, among others Balthasar, who became successively treasurer general of artillery, treasurer extraordinary of war, councillor secretary of the king, chancellor of the exchequer, councillor of state and president of the chamber of accounts, and who in 1601 received from
Henry IV the lands and lordship of
Brie-Comte-Robert. He died in 1603. The name of the Gobelins as dyers can't be found later than the end of the 17th century.
In
1662 the works in the Faubourg Saint Marcel, with the adjoining grounds, were purchased by
Jean-Baptiste Colbert on behalf of
Louis XIV and transformed into a general upholstery manufactory, the
Gobelins manufactory.
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